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... attainments and moral rectitude . It is clear , then , that knowledge alone can make mankind capable of partaking of the same conditions of life , that it is the protection of liberty , and secures the freedom necessary to exercise it ...
... attainments and moral rectitude . It is clear , then , that knowledge alone can make mankind capable of partaking of the same conditions of life , that it is the protection of liberty , and secures the freedom necessary to exercise it ...
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... attainments . Vice and coarse gratifications belong to ignorance as surely as moral and refined desires result from useful learning . Primeval society , rude as it is , affords frequent examples of virtue and intrepidity that win ...
... attainments . Vice and coarse gratifications belong to ignorance as surely as moral and refined desires result from useful learning . Primeval society , rude as it is , affords frequent examples of virtue and intrepidity that win ...
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... attainments , seem unequal to the task of keeping the mind above prejudicial motives and passion . This evil is the bane of happiness , and robs our lives of the most delectable pleasures . The young presume , and therefore , despise ...
... attainments , seem unequal to the task of keeping the mind above prejudicial motives and passion . This evil is the bane of happiness , and robs our lives of the most delectable pleasures . The young presume , and therefore , despise ...
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... attainments . This fitness of mind can be obtained only by right education . The state of our intel- lectual faculties which qualifies them to be exercised indisputably in truthful pursuits , is the work of the highest discipline , the ...
... attainments . This fitness of mind can be obtained only by right education . The state of our intel- lectual faculties which qualifies them to be exercised indisputably in truthful pursuits , is the work of the highest discipline , the ...
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... succour and increase come from the beneficent Father of all good . Unfortunately this feeling is often sacrificed in young philosophers enraptured with their new acquirements , inflated with attainments they have not soberly estimated 30.
... succour and increase come from the beneficent Father of all good . Unfortunately this feeling is often sacrificed in young philosophers enraptured with their new acquirements , inflated with attainments they have not soberly estimated 30.
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acquirements acts advance advantages Aston Bottrel attainments attention beautiful become belong Bewdley blessings brain Bridgnorth bright Burwarton character circumstances civilized claims conduct contemplation conveyed Davis delight desires develope dignity discipline diseased ditto Mr G ditto Mr W duties enjoyment error esteem evil exalted exercise exhibit experience faculties felicity furnishes the means gives gratification habits happiness Haymoor higher highest human ignorance important impulses influence intel intellectual intelligence judgment knowledge labour learning living Ludlow mankind matter mental ments Meredith mind Minton Mongolian moral and social Mytton ditto Miss nature necessity Neenton nobler numerous objects observation obtain Oldswinford opinion organs ourselves Owens passions perfect permanent philosophy and science pleasures Popular Science possess precepts principles progress purity purposes pursuit reflection regulate reward rience rude rule secure shewing society Stanton Long Stourbridge Mr E superior talent tion truth uneducated utility virtues whilst wisdom Wolverhampton Wordsley yield
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Página 45 - And I have loved thee, Ocean ! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be Borne, like thy bubbles, onward : from a boy I wanton'd with thy breakers — they to me Were a delight ; and if the freshening sea Made them a terror — 'twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here.
Página 12 - Wise men now agree, or ought to agree in this, that there is but one way to the knowledge of Nature's works ; the way of observation and experiment. By our constitution, we have a strong propensity to trace particular facts and observations to general rules, and to apply such general rules to account for other effects, or to direct us in the production of them.
Página 15 - ... divine nature, become creaturely existing, or breathed forth from God, to stand before Him in the form of a creature. When the animals of this world were to be created, it was only said, Let the earth, the air, the water, bring forth creatures after their kinds; but when man was to be brought forth, it was said, Let us make man in our own image and likeness.
Página 35 - ... wise man more than the fool?... There is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in wickedness.... One man among a thousand have I found, but a woman among all those have I not found.... The race is not to the swift, the battle to the strong; neither bread to the wise, nor riches to the man of understanding.... On all things is written vanity.